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| 25 Perfect Hangover LP's For Your Hazy Morning
Well, I realize this makes me seem like a raging lush, but, I assure you, it's all in the spirit of, 'mirth and folly.' Cheers! | | 25 |  | The Clientele
The Violet Hour
The Clientele's amazing rainy, 60's melancholia drums up all those romantic images of a sad Dickensian London, and all its literary, Victorian, grimy, gin-riddled beauty. Even though in reality you're sloppily hungover at home, on your couch, eating toast in your Simpsons pajama bottoms, with last-season's Top Chef on way-too-loud in the background. | | 24 |  | Jeremy Enigk
Return of the Frog Queen
A left-field masterwork from Sunny Day Real Estate's, Jeremy Enigk. And, no joke, 'Abigail Anne,' is one of the best songs ever written...way, way better than the parking lot rendition of Bob Segar's, 'Night Moves,' you drunkenly played last night on some kids cheap nylon string guitar at 1:15 AM after the show | | 23 |  | Chelsea Wolfe
Pain Is Beauty
An arresting and unique LP of gothic-tinged folk tunes that are perfectly suited for those routine Sunday mornings, when you wake up and begin your weekly hour of shakey-hand-written apology letters to friends and family | | 22 |  | The Black Heart Procession
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An LP that never tires, perfect for those mornings where you realize that no matter how many endless nights you spend out drinking, they're not coming back, and it's time to let go...unless it's a C.H.U.D Zombie.....they always come back | | 21 |  | Angelo Badalamenti
Twin Peaks
Hands-Down the best hangover show ever, has one of the best hangover soundtracks ever! Angelo Badalamenti's soundtrack is perfect for getting your foggy head together, drinking a damn good cup of black coffee, eating a slice of cherry pie, and solving creepy small-town murders....the last part being not essential, but highly recommended for those who really desire the whole Twin Peaks hangover experience | | 20 |  | Lurker Of Chalice
Lurker Of Chalice
Black metal isn't usually the hangover music of choice for most people, but this is a swelling maelstrom of horror movie sounds, ethereal creakings and my ideal choice for those hangovers where last night's memory ends about 1:30 AM, but you have 4 outgoing, and 2 incoming calls, to 2 separate numbers that you don't recognize, from between 3:00 and 4:00AM....terrific | | 19 |  | Simon and Garfunkel
Greatest Hits
To be honest, I didn't really GET Simon & Garfunkel's folk brilliance until I listened to them on some cloudy morning, after an evening of heavy mirth and folly. The songwriting and the lyrics are some of the best ever, and, those Friday afternoons after Thanksgiving, when both you and your dad are hungover from red wine, mashed potatoes and Manhattan's, you have an LP to listen to together! | | 18 |  | Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
Through The Devil Softly
Hope Sandoval's ethereal and spectral voice is best realized on this brilliant LP, it's a soft and mature release, and one that suits the mornings where you pretentiously carry your Henry James novel over to your local coffee shop and quietly read in the corner, while sipping a surprisingly shitty coffee, and eating a surprisingly good Danish, while the employees iPod plays music that jumps from the hangover-welcome sounds of Sufjan Stevens to the hangover- hating sounds of Death From Above 1979. | | 17 |  | The Cure
Pornography
A classic claustrophobic, heavy, manic-depressive work from The Cure. An ideal LP for the twisted, always-confusing, bender hangover...it's the hangover that starts while you're still drinking. It's from the bender that you started three nights ago at 11:30 PM with just, 'a couple drinks after work,' continued for 2 days, and ended with, 'one more shot of Old Grand-dad at 1:55 AM last night | | 16 |  | Joy Division
Closer
For the mornings when you are stoically resigned to your fate, the mornings you don't complain about your hangover, just bear it as your silent cross, begrudgingly, not hiding it necessarily, but owning it, like I imagine William Faulkner dealt with his hangover's | | 15 |  | Early Day Miners
Offshore
A kind of warm and melancholy LP with a mix of dreamy, narcotic hazes, slowcore, indie rock and post-rock that is perfect for hangover's that are more a pleasant reminder of a fun night than a badge of regret. For the morning where things went well last night, the bands were good, saw some old friends, the bartender picked up a couple rounds, so maybe you drank a little too much, and probably shouldn't have smoked so many cigarettes, but, all in all, it was a lot of fun and a hangover worthy of its evening! | | 14 |  | Jesu
Jesu
Not exactly a quiet record, but a loud, slow, dreamy sludge LP that is somehow optimal for those blurry mornings where you roll off of someone's second-hand couch 16 blocks from home, realize you have zero bus money, walk outside into the cold morning and take that hazy city-walk back with the headphones on, this LP blaring, and the hood up, avoiding eye contact with everyone except the uncaring city pigeons | | 13 |  | The Smiths
Strangeways, Here We Come
A proper soundtrack to those mornings where it takes you 3 minutes to locate the coffee filters which were right in front of you the whole time, 5 minutes to brew a pot of coffee, then, after sitting down...20 minutes to remember you brewed a pot of coffee, then, after pouring a cup and letting the dog out....ten minutes to find that cup of coffee, then, after ten minutes on Sputnik....another ten minutes to find that original cup of coffee....and so on | | 12 |  | Songs: Ohia
Ghost Tropic
For those vicious, black-cloud, Hemingway-hangovers where you hate your neighbors just for opening and closing their door, and every time you roll over even the slightest, your head pounds for 2 inglorious minutes, and you just want to die, and you're, 'never drinking again.' Of all of Jason Molina's beautiful and haunting work, this is the darkest, the most personal, and one you can lie very, very still to as he unfolds his bleak, yet-consoling tales...yay | | 11 |  | Beach House
Devotion
A hangover LP for couples...which should be a category of music all unto itself | | 10 |  | Tom Waits
Mule Variations
Perfect for those mornings where you can't tell if you've escaped the hangover from hell, or are still really, really drunk, so, you decide to stay one drink ahead of your hangover and join the real barfly's at the 'Lounge' at 7:00 AM for a few 'beer and bump's, all while playing midnight with dirty dice that a regular pulled from his pocket, and disinterestedly watching the local morning news on mute, as it flickers on a corner TV with 1/5 of the screen blocked by a bottle of dusty Galliano | | 9 |  | Slint
Spiderland
I never need an excuse to listen to Slint, so, a hangover is as good as any. | | 8 |  | Earth
Hex: Or Printing In The Infernal Method
If my nightmares were spaghetti westerns, this would be the soundtrack. But, since they're not (for better or worse), it's an ideal soundtrack to those mornings where my better half and I say that we're not going to be lazy and hungover today, and then, discuss making a healthy breakfast for 25 minutes, even going as far as to remove the pans from cupboards, only to realize we're missing some inconsequential ingredient, which, is enough of a justification to go out to a restaurant and have a heart-stopping eggs benedict and a Bloody Mary for breakfast instead | | 7 |  | Sun Kil Moon
Benji
You could really choose any Mark Kozelek LP from the last 25 years as a terrific companion to your bad case of the alcohol blues, but this current one goes down well with those rare, delightful hangovers. You know, the familiar one that still hurts, but is also somehow consoling, like an old friend. The hangover where you get up, it's freezing cold outside, it's snowing, and then, you realize you have the day off, you flip the heater on high and find out there is a Simpson's marathon on all day, one of those hangovers | | 6 |  | Arab Strap
The Red Thread
Arab Strap made a living off of writing stunning, striking and unnerving songs about the abject morning-after's of so many wasted nights, and they earned every penny. An appropriate soundtrack for those wonderfully cringe-worthy mornings where your head is pounding, your muscles ache, you fear last night's text messages, can't recall what bar you left your credit card at, and are baffled and embarrassed how you managed to get home with only one shoe?.always fun | | 5 |  | Codeine
The White Birch
A slow, lurching, depressive masterpiece that certainly won't put a bounce in your step, or lighten your day, but, it also won't judge you as you take 3 Tylenol down with a shot of Fernet, fumble through some lame excuse to your co-worker who you got to cover your day shift, and order greasy Chinese delivery from that place that pretty much sucks, but, is the only one open Sunday at 10:00 AM | | 4 | | Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
Along with Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline is really what I share most closely with 1950's housewives, well, and a love of homemade pie I suppose. It's amazing how we all find solace in Patsy's powerfully sad songs and a few glasses of whiskey, but, really, pie is probably the #1 common thread | | 3 |  | Bohren & der Club Of Gore
Dolores
Slinky, dark, horror-lounge music that I always imagined the Pink Panther would listen to if he was a super hip, heroin-addicted spy with a peculiar taste for washed-up women and dingy Paris bars, which, is much different than the half-hip, non-heroin addicted, 2nd-rate-bartender in a steady relationship, with a working-class taste for Jim Beam and Pabst, that you actually are | | 2 |  | Rex
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An insanely overlooked slowcore band that infused spare acoustics, hushed vocals, and beautifully textured songwriting. A fitting LP for those summer mornings where sitting on the front porch, drinking coffee in your much-loved worn-in Black Flag t-shirt, and watching the dog watch you watch squirrels is your 'plan,' for the day | | 1 |  | Grouper
Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
Some LP titles are apt descriptions for how it feels to crawl out from under the sheets after a night out of boozy libations. The sparse and abstractly-dark folk created by Grouper on this LP is an ideal reason to stay in bed all morning, only getting up to pee, then, drink directly out of the bathroom sink faucet, fumble in last night's pants pockets to make sure your phone is there, flip the record, and get back into bed. | |
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